De Vere-Michael Kiss possesses more than 40 years of real-world-experience beginning his aviation, space, and designing career in April of 1983 as a flight attendant for Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) while completing his FAA pilot certifications; concurrently working as a flight instructor and charter pilot. In 1985, he transitioned from flight attendant/flight instructor/charter pilot to commuter airline pilot with MESA Airlines and then SkyWest Airlines in 1986. In April 1987, PSA rehired him as a first officer on the BAe-146. PSA was merged with US Air in 1988, Piedmont in 1989, and America West in 2005 creating US Airways. Today, Captain Kiss holds a current position on the seniority list at American Airlines as an A320 pilot (US Airways purchased and completed merger with American in 2015). He is qualified as a Simulator/ Ground School Instructor and University Adjunct Instructor. In 2012 through 2013, he was charged with developing and teaching Human Factors, CRM and Aviation Law course curriculum at Oklahoma State University while obtaining his master’s degree in Aviation and Space Sciences. Since then, he has helped different organizations develop safety cultures. Captain Kiss is qualified in several commercial transport category aircraft including: Airbus, Boeing, British Aerospace, Bombardier, Embraer, Fokker, and McDonnell Douglas. He has extensive knowledge of and has taught verification methods for FMS and Autopilot system behavioral compliance. He has trained hundreds of domestic and foreign pilots in crew/team concepts to mitigate errors in transport category aircraft during normal, abnormal, and emergency flight. He is an expert in risk mitigation practices. Additionally, Captain Kiss has extensive knowledge of human anatomy/physiology and related characteristics in human factors accident causations including: cardiac, circadian, cognitive, hypoxic, immunologic, neurologic and pathogenic limitations. Further, he has a very thorough knowledge base of aviation and other industrial accidents and the associated causal elements involved as he has been studying and analyzing world aviation accidents since 1977. He has been incorporating aviation/industrial accidents in his lectures since 2001. His experience, research, and education afford him with the unique ability to assess safety critical systems from the perspective of an expert user which provides highly valued knowledge to develop prototype designs with high maturity for enhanced robustness and resilience at system delivery time. In 2015, Captain Kiss was recognized as professional of the year by Worldwide Branding for dedication, leadership and excellence in aviation safety and education. Also, in 2015, the HCDIA team, consisting of Dr. Guy Boy, Dr. Ondrej Doule, Ph.D. student Yash Meta, and Captain Kiss (Ph.D. Candidate) was awarded and assigned a research grant to develop certification recommendations for the United States Federal Aviation Administration’s Commercial Space Transportation (AST) Certification Regulations. In April of 2016, Captain. Kiss was awarded the Grand Prize for Genesis Engineering’s Internal Design Layout of the Single Person Spacecraft (SPS) contest, competing with 18 universities for this award. This paper was also presented at the Association of Aviation and Aerospace (AIAA) conference in Long Beach, CA in August 2016 Most recently (July 2017), Captain. Kiss was nominated and inducted into the prestigious Marquis Who’s Who in America. In 2016 he was awarded a seat with the SAE G-10G Realistic Training Committee making vital recommendations to the FAA regarding pilot training. In September 2018, Captain. Kiss was presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award for achieving career longevity and demonstrating unwavering excellence in aviation, space, and education. Dr. Kiss completed and defended his Ph.D. Dissertation in November, 2018; the design, development, iteration, and testing of a new interface system to help pilots efficiently navigate an aircraft manual by reducing the time it takes a pilot to find system information, enhancing pilot cognition, decision making, learning, safety and costs; he graduated December 15, 2018. Additionally, he is a simulator and ground school instructor for Aerostar teaching Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 aircraft and ATP-CTP. In January of 2020, Dr. Kiss was nominated and elected as the Chairman of the SAE G-10G committee and is currently working on “Pilot Education and Procedural Training for Startle Effect, Stress and Crew Performance”. Most recently (July, 2021), Dr. Kiss is now teaching Aviation Psychology and Human Factors as adjunct instructor at FIT. Finally, Dr. Kiss volunteers as a Florida State Guardian ad Litem advocating for the rights of abused children.